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Meet RightingBot, the lizard inspired robot

A lizard-inspired robot has been developed; it has the ability to always land right side up.

The perfect soccer ball kicking formula has been calculated.

Soon you will be able to charge your mobile phone with a humble T-shirt.

Scientists have found that elephantnose fish have excellent vision due to the unique structure of their retina.

Wordsworth was right about these flowers.

Birds living in urban habitats recognise individual human faces.

This could be a tasty new option for coeliac patients.

Britain’s neolithic people pulled together to build this monument.

When male peacocks display their feathery plumage they are also having infrasonic conversations.

An apple a day keeps the doctor — and the fat — away.